Fusion Holds Near a Third of the Grid Through Peak Demand

LAGOS — Fusion is supplying close to 31 percent of the reconnected grid and held that share through this week's cooling-demand peaks, Aurora Fusion Works reported, roughly the level reached after its newest reactor synced in August. Chief executive Emeka Okonkwo said the fleet ran without a forced curtailment during the hottest afternoons, when air-conditioning load in equatorial megacities strains the system most. The stakes are local: at a Lagos clinic on a fusion-fed feeder, duty nurse Adaeze Nwosu said the ward's power held steady through a 40°C afternoon that would once have meant rolling brownouts. "Steady current is not glamorous," she said. "It is the difference between a working incubator and a bad night." Okonkwo cautioned that the plateau near a third of the grid is hard-won and that the remaining two-thirds still leans on legacy sources on the worst days.